The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. It is in contemplation by the military authorities at Aldershott to devote the building known as "the Clubhouse" to the holding of assemblies and fashionable reunions during the winter months. The new pack•saddle invented by Lieutenant - ..M‘Mahon, Ist battalion Military Train, and de soribed in 771 e Sun last week, was examined at Al dershott on Friday by Col. the Hon. H. H. Clifford, V.C., Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen., on the South Camp,:in the presence of several officers, when the principle of the invention was highly approved. The saddle, after a close examination by Colonel Clifford, was placed on one of the largest horses belonging to the Military Train, and it was demon• strated by Lieut. M‘Mahon that by means of four pairs of inverted screws it could be contracted so as to fit the smallest pony. It was then handed over Lieut. and Adjutant Devine, 2d battalion Military Train, for trial, and the report of Colonel Robert son, C.B. New colours for the 31st Regiment have arrived at Aldershott, and will shortly be presented. The regiment has seen much service in India, the Crimea, and in China. In 1860 it left India for China over 1,100 strong, and received during its .stay in that country a draught of 102 men. It em. barked from the latter place for England 0n1y.642 strong, having experienced a total loss of 588 of all ranks, or nearly one-half its strength, in the space of three years and a half. It is not yet de cided who will perform the pleasing ceremony of presenting the colours to the regiment, but it is thought probable that the wife of Major. Gen. Sir F. Lugard, C. 8., will accept the office, the gallant major-general being the colonel of this distinguished corps. Tho colours at present borne by the regia ment were presented at Dublin in May, 1848, by the then Major. Gen. Prince George of Cambridge. On Thursday afternoon the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershott, consisting of the 14th Hussars and the Ist and 2 i Royal Dragoons, was paraded in front of the officers quarters' for the purpose of witnessing the presentation of a silver medal and a gratuity of £l5 to Quartermaster-Serg. Henry Joshua Smith, of the 14th Hussars, for long service and good con duct. The presentation was made by Col. Darby Gaeiffiths, 2d Royal Dragoons, who paid the highest compliments to the quartermaster-serg. and to the general appearance and bearing of the troops. After the ceremony the troops returned to quarters with bands playing. The monthly inspection of hospital buildings and stores at Aldershott by the Principal Purveyor, Mr H. Powell, took place throughout the past week, as follows, commencing each day at 10 a.m.:—On Monday, the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 2d and sth battalions Military Train, and Hospital for soldiers' wives, Ric,; on Tuesday, the let battalion 14th, 31st, 62d, and 85th Regiments ; on Wednes. day, the Ist Royal and 2d Dragoons, 14th Has. sars, 2d battalion 60th Rifles, and 62d Regiment; and en the same day, in the North Camp, the 39th, 75th, and 833 Regiments; A medical officer at. tendeded on behalf of each corps. The monthly inspection of barracks at Aldershott has taken place during the past week as follows : On Monday, the Commissariat Staff Corps, the 2d and sth battalions Military Train, the 75th and 39th Regiments; on Tuesday, the Royal Artillery in the permanent barracks, the Ist battalion 14th Regi• ment, the Royal Engineers, the 59th and 83d Regis ments ; on Wednesday the 62d Regiment and 2d battalion 60th Rifles ; on Thursday, the Ist Royal Dragoons and the 14th Hussars ; on Friday the 2d Dragoons. The inspection commenced each day at 10 a.m., and in the Cavalry, Royal Artillery, and Military Train the whole of the stable utensils were laid out far inspection. Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., coma manding the division at Aldershott, has consented to preside at the sixth inaugural meeting of the Al dershott Institution for Mental improvement and Social Recreation,to be held on,Wednesday evening. In reference to the examination in July, 1865, of candidates for admission to the Staff College at Sandhurst, a general order from the Horse Guards announces that the examinations will comprise the following portions of nailitsry history and geo graphy :—Military History—The campaigns of the British army in the Peninsula in the years 1808, 1809-10, with a general outline of the operations of the Spanish armies so far as they were calculated to influence those of the British. Military Geo graphy—The geography of Spain and Portugal considered with reference to milit .ry operations. The following works may be read with advan tage, not to the exclusion, however, of others, whether English or French, which may throw light on the campaigns to be studied—Napier's Peninsular War, Brailenont's Life of Wellington, Garwood's Despatches of the Duke of Wellington, (selection) Macdougali's Theory of War, and La vollee's Military Geography. Candidates, on ap plication to the Council of Military Education, will receive a copy of the synopsis of the studies pur sued at the Starr Cullegc, vyhi, h way oorvc GM a useful guide to them in preparing themselves for the examination. Yesterday 100 non-commissioned officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, under the command of Capt. E.A. Wylde, left head•quarters for the Government rifle range at Milton, where they will undergo a course of ball practice previous to embarcation. A detach,. ment of 50 men of all ranks joined the division at Chatham yesterday from Deal, to be attached to the service companies. The screw gun vessel Torch, 5, having been masted in the stream, is now in the hands of the riggers in No. 4 dock, at Chatham, where she is being fitted aloft and inboard, for commission. She is to be fitted with new boilers, her present boilers having been found so defective that they are now being taken to pieces. During the time she has been in the ship. wrights' hands the Torch has undergone a thorough repair, upwards of one-half of her timbers, together with the greater portion of her planking, having been taken out and new substituted. She is intended to be commissioned for service on the coast of Africa. The screw corvette Scout, 21, 400-horse power, fitting for the first division of the Chatham Steam Reserve, in place of the Ciio, 2Z, 400-horse power, has been fitted with a poop in addition to a new topgallant forecastle. She will shortly be out of the hands of the dockyard officials. The large Warrior target recently experimented upon at Shoeburyness has been conveyed to Sheer• ness dockyard in the Dove naval transport, and is being taken to pieces in the north camber by a party of shipwrights. The remains of the Lord Warden and the Scott• Russell iron target have been landed at Chatham dockyard from Shoeburyness. They are so much battered that they are only fit to be broken up for the general service of the dockyard. The Ringdove, 4, screw gun vessel, Commander Ralph A. 0. Brown, arrived at Spithead yesterday from China, after a rather long passage, having experienced several heavy gales of wind. She sailed from Hongkong on the 12th of May. She is ordered to be officially inspected at Spithead to-day, and will afterwards go into Portsmouth harbour to dis mantle and pay out of commission, which dates back to October, 1859. The. Imperial Russian corvette Rhinda, screw, 11 guns, sailed from the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, yesterday morning for Cronstadt. The military invalids and time-expired soldiers on board the sailing transport New Era, the arrival of which vessel at Spithead from Madras was an nounced in The Sun of yesterday, were disem barked by Government steamer yesterday, the in valids being sent on to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, and the time-expired men to the depots of their respective regiments. Capt. Hark ness, of the 25th N. 1., arrived in military chug° 1 . ( 01 " India, and D Fitzgerald, of the lit Dragoon Guards, in medical charge. As soon as the disem. barcation had been effected the New Era sailed front Spithesd for the Thames. The Sharpßhooter,4-gun screw sloop, iron, Lieut.- fitted o u t at P ortsmouth for Commander Clav crin g , service on t h e Brazil station, steam e d out of the har bour yesterday for a trial of her rnaehinary, and afterwards returned to the harbour to carry out some trifling alteration found to be required. She is expected to sail finally from Portsmouth this morning for a probable 10 days' cruse in the Chan. nel, at the close of which she will leave for the Brazils, calling in at Plymouth Sound. The Dutch 50-gun screw frigate Nar;er, which arrived at tho Nore on Thursday, after being in collision with a merchant vessel off the North Fore. land, as already detailed in The S has been in• spected by Vice. Admiral Sir C. Liibot, naval Commander.in-Chief, who with his suite visited every portion of the vessel. Previously to the inspection the captain and principal officers of the Nargen paid their respects to Vice. Admiral Sir C. Talbot. The frigate is quite new, and in excel lent condition. The damage she has sustained appears to be rather serious; but the exact amount cannot be ascertained until the frigate has been docked. On Saturday the War Department trans. port Bomarsund, Mr Spicer master, went down from Chatham and unshipped the powder and shells from the Nargen, for conveyance to the magazines at Upnor Castle, where her ammunition will be stored during the time the frigate is under repair. She will remain at her present moorings until Thursday next, which is the earliest day the tides will allow of her being floated into the basin, and docked for the purpose of making good her repairs. This, in accord ance with orders received at Chatham, is to be undertaken by the dockyard shipwrights. During the time the frigate is under repair, a portion of the naval barracks will be appropriated for the accom modation of the officers and crew. The Schleswig-Holstein Question, FRANKFOB.T.ON.TIIE.MAINE, Oct. 22. A meeting of the Committee of the Assembly of Members of German Diets took place on the 16th at Weimar, to receive the political and financial report of the managing subcommittee, andLtake into con. sideration the present position of the Schleswig. Holstein question. The meeting was attended by delegates from Bavaria, Brunswick, Coburg, Franke fort, Gotha, Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse-Darmstadt, Prussia, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Weimar, and w r urtemberg. The report laid before the meeting entered first into details of financial matters possessing no gene ral interest, and passed then to a recapitulation of the course of the committee since the last meeting (April 9 and 10). It entered upon a statement of the success of the chief measures advocated by the Committee, and concluded by detailing the steps it recommended to be pursued. The following report of the subsequent proceedings, and the views ex pressed by the Committee, are furnished by the See. retaries of the Assembly : " In the debate which ensued the Committee had first to take into consideration the progress of the movement up to the present time in view of the re• suit to be attained by the impending conclusion ef peace. When, after the death of Frederick VII., the entire German people demanded with unanimity hitherto unexampled, war for the separation of the Duchies from Denmark, and institution of the legi. timate heir to the throne, the great German Powers declared at the sitting of the Federal Diet of the 28th of November last year, that they considered themselves bound by the Treaty of London, and would require nothing more from Denmark than the fulfilment of the obligations undertaken by that treaty. Faithful to this declaration they sent their troops some weeks afterwards to Schleswig, not to wage war against Denmark, but to take the duchy in pledge upon the basis of the London arrange. ments. In the meantime the national movement had fcund common expression of the unanimous will, based upon the union of all patriotic parties, in the resolutions of the Assembly of Members of the German Diets which met in Frankfort on the 21st Dec., us well as some organisation in the com mittee of 36 chosen by the Assembly, and about 700 Schleswig-Holstein associations connected there with. Through the moral pressure they first exer cised upon the middle States, and by the help of the latter also upon the two great German Powers, they succeeded, aided by the blind obstinacy of Denmark and the valour of the Austro-Prussian troops, in driving these two great Powers further and further past their original limit, so that at last the loose tie of personal union was all with which they attempted to hold fast to the London Treaty. "In the Easter meetings held throughout the who'c of Germany, nearly 300 in number, the na tion once more solemnly and decisively declared its will in regard to the impending Conference of the European Powers. When therefore this Confe rence met, the protest signed by 1,388 members of German Diets was issued and laid before it. This document alluded to the solution required by right and the will of the people, and contained a solemn protest in the name of the assembled nation against every settlement of the future of the Duchies with out, and in opposition to, their own wish. Shortly afterwards followed the protest against the arbi trary division of Schleswig, to which nearly 400 associations, almost all the Diets then sitting, and two large popular assemblies in the Duchy, gave in their adhesion. These different ma nifestations have assuredly not been with „,„t, i e en seeee upon th. German and foreign Powers, of which theverbal and written expressions of English statesmen alone give sufficient proof. The campeign recommenced after the failure of the Conference finally led to the entire prostration of Denmark and the conclusion of the preliminaries. The simultaneous appearance of the Oldenburg candidate called forth a further protest, in which the immediate recognition and institution of Duke Frederick were demanded. The position of the Schleswig-Holstein question has since undergone no further material change, nor has any groat and universal expression of the popular will taken place. " The Committee estimated at its full value the greatness of the result gained for Germany by the liberation of the Duchies. The nation has the greater reason to appreciate this success with satisfaction as it has been mainly owing to the newly strengthened power of the national mind, and the national will, that the victory is due. This satisfaction, at the same time, must not go so far as to lead us to easy security and tame resignation in all that may hap pen. The separation of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark was merely the first half of the national programme, and we must not forget that even this was only attained by a course diametrically opposed in more than one direction to that desired by the nation and marked out by right. The second and not less important part of the problem—the consti• tution of an independent State of Schleswig-Hol stein under its legitimate Prince elected by the people—has not even yet found its accomplishment. It has still to contend with serious difficulties; the national interests bound up with it may still be in jured in the greatest degree, and it is especially the guides of the policy of the two great Powers whose proceedings constantly challenge anew the distrust of the nation. As they declined to allow the people of Schleswig-Holstein to partici pate in the conflict, as they subsequently refused it a voice in debating the terms of peace, so they still withhold from it the execution of its right to participate in the decision of the internal future of the country. "The committee was, therefore, unanimously of opinion that the movement should be continued with all possible energy, and that in particular the committee itself, as organ of the assembly of mem bers of the German Diets which replaces the Par liaments not yet attained, should not cease its action until the national programme in the Schles wig Holstein matter should be thoroughly cmied out. Up to that time the union of all patriots formed for the settlement of a cause removed from party strife should be unalterably upheld. "It is especially important to dwell upon the hitherto disregarded and_still threatened right of determining their own future accruing to the Schleswig _Holstein people. This right demands, above all, the immediate convocation of the Diet elected according to the fundamental law of Sept. 15, 1845, and the final recognition and institution of Duke Frederick. This rife,`. further dema n d s free determination of the new relations of the cone. try towards Germany. basal solely upon Grrmen interests and its own; of the question whether any and what treaties shall bo concluded with Prussia ; of the adhesion of Schleswig holstein to the Zoll verein, advocated alike by its own interests and those of Germany ; and, lastly, of the entrance of Schleswig into the Germenic Confederation, en i euent already provided for by the constitutional FHE SUl', LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1864. law, and equally inevitable by Schleswig and the whole of Germany. "We are firmly convinced that the Schleswig. Holstein people will as hitherto faithfully fulfil its duty towards itself and Germany, and not falter in adherence to its internal freedom, and that it will in especial manfully defend its constitution against all attempts at attack. No alteration of the same that may be required must take place save in the way laid down by the constitution itself. We hope not less assuredly that the entire German nation will stand unhesitatingly beside its Northern brothers in their struggle for their rights and liber ties. The more it finds common political action im peded by the faults of the collective German con stitution which have been Ro clearly displayed in the course of the past year, and so long as its righteous claim for a German Parliament and an improved central power is not conceded, the more incumbent is it upon the Diets and upon every single citizen not to abandon this great national cause until it has been brought through all difficul. ties and hardships, and the right of Schleswig- Holstein has been happily led on to victory. If we all do our duty, this object will be as certainly attained as the results gained by the natiou up to the present time.—By order of the Committee, " Dr. S. MULLER and G. Fr. KoLB." THE DUKE OF AUGUSTENBURG, BERLIN, Oct. 23. The semisofficial NorddeutscheAllgemethe Zeitung of to-day makes the following statement with re. gard to the Duke of Augustenburg : " Prussia and Austria had placed their signa tures to the London protocol not because they had greater sympathy with the line of Glucksburg than with any other line, but because, in 1851, the pro tocol appeared to those Powers the best means of defending the rights of German nationality in the Duchies against Danish encroachment. This means with regard to Danish policy has proved ineffectual. It would have proved equally ineffectual had the choice of the Powers assenting to the protocol fallen upon any other Prince in the regulation of the succession question. Had the condition of affairs at the conclusion of the London protocol been of such a nature that instead of the Glucks burg the Augustenburg line had been summoned to the Danish throne, the armies of the German great Powers in 1864 would have fought against the Danes under the leadership of the Duke of Augastenburg. Thus stood the matter. At the moment when King Frederick VII. died the Ger man great Powers waged a war for the interest of Germany and of the German inhabitants of the Duchies, but they waged no war for the interests of the hereditary Prince of Augustenburg, whom they in fact would have fought against had he by the treaties of 1851 been declared the successor to the Danish Crown. The Franco-Italian Convention, The Memorial Diplomatique has the subjoined— "Diplomatic communications of recent date have definitively enlightened the French Government as the attitude taken by the Austrian Cabinet in presence of the Franco-Italian Convention of the 15th September. The Cabinet of Vienna is desirous of an alliance with France, as it has been in the past and will be in the future. Such is the gene ral situation, and no circumstance has hitherto transpired to produce any change. As to the treaty of the 15th September, the Austrian Govern. ment declares that it accepts with confidence the guarantee with which the French Government had surrounded it. lii its eyes the value of the treaty consists solely in the signature of France; but that suffices for the Cabinet of Vienna, and it desires nothing more. As a proof of the sincerity of its intentions towards France, the Austrian Govern ment engages not to exert any influence on the ulterior determinations of the Holy Father. If the Pope consults the Cabinet of Vienna as to the course he shall take with regard to the Roman Conven tion, the Cabinet of Vienna will advise his Holiness to accept purely and simply the situation induced by the new arrangements. Only, according as that situation shall be developed in one sense or another, Austria reserves for that moment its rights as a Catholic Po xer. The same journal likewise says : "We are informed that Spain has addressed to the French Government its answer to the commu nication of the Fracco-Italian Treaty of the 15th Sept. The Cabinet declares that it has no wish to oppose any obstacle to the development of the situation produced by the Convention signed by France. It adds that it relies on the engagements taken by the Cabinet of the Tuileries to keep Italy and the Italians within the letter of the treaty, and that Spain has not at present, in its quality as a Catholic Power, any objection to make against the arrangements concluled." PARIS, OCT. 22. The new pamphlet, of which a summary has been telegraphed, is entitled "La Convention du 15 Septembre, 1541,P an d is supposed to proceed from a semi-official source. Its main argument seems directed to prove that France and Italy can have no other object iu view than to execute faith fully and loyally all the points of the convention, securing the possession of Rome to the Pope, and granting Florence as the defiuitive capital of Italy. The pamphlet concludes as follows : " France is alone at Rome, because she is there carrying out the common task of Catholicity; but if, after long and! persevering efforts, she should not attain her object by reason of the duplicity of Italy, as the question of the Papacy is not of a kind which can always remain without solution, it is probable that the Catholic Powers would ultimately put in their claim to take part in the matter. In place, then, of sympathis ing with France, the Italians might well end by having the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Por tuguese and Bavarians at Rome; that is to say, neighbours who would perhaps not so much assist as we should in the removal of the difficulties in herent to the position of the Italian Kingdom. " These eventualities, which the most ordinary common.sense indicates, have been seen by Italian statesmen as well,as by us, and it is to remove them that they have desired, in getting the Convention of the 15th of September last to obtain the assist• ante of France. " The time at which France should draw her troops from Rome, was pointed out in advance by the very object of her policy—it was the time when in quitting the States of the Church she could leave behind her the Papacy respected and guarded by Italy herself. The evacuation was opportune, it was even necessary, as soon as it became possible without danger—but if the value which the French Government attaches to the independence of the Holy See has been hitherto placed beyond doubt by 15 years of respectful and Efficacious protection, it is rendered still less dubious by the precautions with which the execution of the Convention of Sept. 15 has been surrounded. "France assuredly believes in the loyalty of the Italian Government, since she has accepted its en. gagements ; but, without attaching any doubt to its desire to remain faithful to them, she has been able to foresee the difficulties which, in a country still agitated and occupied with its definitive organisation hostile parties might entail upon their punctual exe cution. It is to give Italy time to strengthen herself in her new resolutions, and to draw nearer to the Holy See that. France has stipulated the delay of two years for the entire evacuation of Rome; it is fur ther, and, above all, to give the Papacy time to seek, to ripen, and to organise, without surprise and pre• cipitation, the means which France has reserved by the convention, with a view of providing for its in ternal security. Under the shadow of the Frey flog the new army will be organised, small but sufficien. to maintain order, and composed of elements which the Holy Father will have judged the most appro priate to his position. Those who, having lived in Italy, know that the population of the villages, and tho immense majority of the population of Rome, are at bottom devoted to the Papacy and its paternal rule, are also aware that the problem of the security of Rome is reduced to watching and keeping down a certain number of blunderers such as all great cities contain. A small army, supported by the goodwill of the Roman population, will be sufficient for this task, as coon as the ItE;lian Com:ln:lent shall have rendered it more facile by its loyal co•opera. tion. " Thus there will be solved, to the honour of France and of her Government, this delicate and difficult Roman question, which has caused such well-grounded uneasiness in the Catholic mind. We aro sufficiently acquainted with the wisdom of the Holy Father to feel persuaded that his Government will not give to overexcited minds any of the pre texts they will not fail to seek to lay obstacles in the way of the happy and proximate reconciliation of the Papacy and Italy." Mr. Beresford Hope on Schools of Art, Tho prizes awarded to the students of the Government School of Art, Liverpool Institute, were presented on Thursday evening, in the presence of a largo assemblage, in the lecture hall of the above institution, by A. J. B. Beres ford Hope, Esq., who presided. Among the gentlemen pre sent were his worship the Mayor (Charles Mozley, Esq.), Mr H. H. Bright, the vice president; Mr Councillor Hey worth, Messrs. Dismore, Hadwen, Wylie, Ellis, Murphy, Job, Buxton, :Booth, Bateman, Robinson, J, Finney, Astrup Cariss, the secretary ; and the Revs. T. B. Banner and W. Bannister. It having been formally moved that in the absence of Mr Alfred Holt, the president, Mr Beresford Hope should preside, that gentleman assumed the chair amidst loud spa plause. He at once proceeded to address the meeting, and said he felt some embarrassment in addressing for the first time such an audience, in such a place as Liverpool, with no other introduction than their common interest in that good cause which had brought them together, He had for some time past felt a great interest in this art movement, and had been concerned lately in the struggle between the art schools and her Majesty's Department of Science and and Art, of which he should havo something to say to them. And even if there had been no Government encouragement, if there was no Department of Science and Art, if there were no schools of art, he should still feel an interest in art for its own sake, and for the advantages it conferred upon the world. (Applause.) And so ho felt that he might without further introduction speak to them as friends, on that most interesting occasion, on that most noble and eminent insti tution. He had believed for some time that all our schools of art had been the offspring of the Exhibition of 1851— end, therefore, had been greatly astounded to learn that that school of art had existed since 1852. If so, it occu pied a unique and patriarchal position—and the whole department, Lord Granville and Mr Cole, all of them ought to come and k!ss the threshold of the building, if it was there indeed that the movement was in reality started ; and that venerable patriarch, Lord Brougham,the father of useful knowledge, had shown him self to be the grandfather of artLtic training when he laid the first stone of that building. (Loud applause.) The speaker went on to speak of the crises through which the schools of art had lately been passing, giving an account of the proceedings between the committee of art school mana gers and masters, sf which he was the chairman, and Lord Granville, and the report presented late in the session by the committee appointed, on the motion of Sir Stafford Northcote, to inquire into the condition of art schools. The committee had met at the house of Colonel Wilson Patten and gone through the resolutions of the House of Com mons committee, jotting down their ideas upon them, and afterwards—as representing the art schools through out the country, to whom they had since appealed for support—presenting them to Lord Granville. What they had done would, of course, come to nothing unless they were supported by the art schools. Having read the resolutions of the House of Commons committee, and the comments of the committee of which he was chair man, Mr Hope observed that this was the compromise with which they would be satisfied. He would not enter into the question el whether they had a right to claim more; but looking at it in the light of the possible, he thought his committee would find they had done a salutary work for all schools. (Applause.) Ha would now abandon the subject of South Kensington, and consider why the people of Liverpool should support a school of art. Other places which had schools of art were seats of manufacture, and required instruction as to the design of the works which they produced. But Liverpool derived its wealth from com merce with the ends of the world; its merchant princes brought their treasures from the utmost bounds of the ocean ; why should they havo a school of art ? Liverpool was not art productive, but it was art consuming, and the consumer of art was as much in need of art education as the producer of art. (Applause.) As civilised human beings they were wearers of clothing and users of furniture, and were thus consumers of good or bad art, and therefore art education was necessary to them. This might not be one of those groat truths which were written on the broad face of the heavens, but it was not the less true. The feeling of the beautiful, and the feeling of the well proportioned and the beautiful, were at the base of religion and morality. (Ap plause.) He here took up a position which, he believed, had never been taken b , tare, and therefore he felt more con vinced of the truth of it, because ho felt this wes a point we were working to. He trust°. that a classical education would always be given in our public seminaries, because it brought men into direct contact with those countries which, by the inscrutable and wonderful dispositions of Providence, a great revelation of ideas of beauty in art and literature had been made three and two thousand years ago—the lands of Greece and Rome. (Cheers.) But all could not have a clas sical education ; and what was a substitute for it ? What was there which coul . bring the great masses of our people face to face with the great product ions in art of Greece and Rome? He said diaiinctly, art education, and the study ing, the exhibition, and the copying of the great works of art of that time. (Applause.) All must admit that to fully appreciate a work of art, unless they were looking at it with a very well educated mind, it was necessary to copy it. The shrewdest of the Romans, old Horace, said, "The mind is more lazily stirred up by what goes in at the ears than what is stuck up before the faithful eyes." And here he must bring a charge against South Kensington. The speaker having observed that ho had spoken in praise of the art of ancient Greece and Rome, but not more warmly than it deserved, proceeded to speak in enthusiastic terms of Gothic art, noticing by the way its manifestation in the writings of Shakariese and Tennyson. He said Gothic art should be held in equal honour with the art of Greece and Rome, and that it was a disgrace to this country that the former was not taught as generally as the latter. The re vival of the art of Greece and Rome in Italy in the 16th century was beautiful and graceful, bnt still artificial and local. Mr Hope here referred to the pleasure with which he had found that the ship of war now building in Messrs Laird's yard at Birkenhead was named the Agincourt, and remarked that even the great scientific achievements of the 19,11 century had their relation in the historical. Therefore they were bound to claim that the instruction which was supplied from South Kensington should not be so exclu sively classical, so exclusively Renaissance, as it hitherto had been ; but that a greater recognition of Gothic art should be made by the South Kensington authorities, In Liverpool they had not so many specimens of renowned Gothic art as in other towns in the kingdom ; but this was creditable to them, inasmuch as it showed that they had come for ward to build magnificent public buildings at a time when other great towns had not yet felt it their duty to act in the same way, and before the knowledge of Gothic architecture was revived. He hoped they would excuse his dwelling on this subject, but he felt strongly with regard to it. He be lieved a little pressure from without would do good. Govern ments were squeezable ; departments had their eyes sud denly opened in a very mysterious manner. (Laughter.) A little more nationality, a little more wideness in speci mens, with not so much worship of the narrow school of Italian renaissme, would work very healthy and very agreeable reforms. (Hear.) He would now come to the business of the evening. He held in his hand some details for which he was indebted to his friend Mr. Cariss. He informed him that during the year one of their students, James Barnes, had been admitted a student of the Royal Academy, and another of their pupils, who had left them about a year to become a pupil at the Birkenhead School of Art, had also been admitted to the School :of the Royal Academy. Thomas Lindsey, a pupil-teacher of their school, had been appointed to the School of Art at Capetowr, six years ago. (Applause.) The masters of the Exeter School of Art, of the Glasgow school, and of one of the Bristol schools, had all been students there and also Government pupil-teachers before entering the master's training class at South Kensington. Some statistics as to the number of persons trained through the agency of schools of art showed that Liver pool stood comparatively thus :—Liverpool lustitute, 1434, Collegiate, 2446-3 87 7 ; w ith £893. Glasgow, 3,336. £6ll. Manchester, 2982 ; £555. Birmingham , 1614 ; £ 691 ; Dublin, 1348; £320. B ut L i ver pool was not fairly tested, because there were no fi gures f r om the other institutions in the town. This was very creditable to Liverpool, because it was not a direct manufacturing town. There were no em ployers here who felt it their interest to drive their designers to learn. In 30 or 40 years art consuming towns ought to show as good an array of art schools as art producing towns, but as the idea was somewhat novel it was not be supposed that such a theory would ba at once appreciated. They had done a great work, he hoped an increasing work, and all he could do as a str anger and yet as a friend coming amongst them, was to bid them go en and prosper. (Cheers.) The hon. chairman then proceeded to distribute prizes, making appropriate complimentary remarks to the recipients, and resumed his seat amidst loud applause. The MIYOR observed that perhaps he should have studied the interest of his audience and his own convenience by re maining a listener only to the hon. chairman's pleasing and brilliant address, but he had been called upon to discharge a duty which was duo t9._the students of thateinstitution, and to offer to them the coiagratulations of those who took en interest in the promotion of nrt, and in the welfare of those who studied it. His worship having given some particulars about the foundationol that school of art, went on to say that he believed that whether it were in the Grecian or Gothic art, whichever might be considered to be the best and the most adapted to the taste of the people and the time in which we lived, the establishment of schools of art tended to refine the tastes of the people, and to raise the industrial classes in the social scale. (Applause.) So long, therefore, as they were enabled to improve the tastes of the humbler classes, and raise them to a higher state than that in which they had been born, it was their duty to give every possible effort to carry out those designs which had already been laid down, and which they believed would benefit society at large. He ventured, therefore, to congratulate the students on their success, and to express a hope that they would continue to progress; so that what they now thought the attainment of a high position would prove only an humble imitation of that to which they would attain in the course of time. (Loud applause.) Mr H. Bright next addressed the meeting in an animated speech, in which he pointed out the improvement which had taken place in works of art in this country during recent years, speaking particularly of architecture, and ex pressed a hope that Liverpool would be ready in the future to spend some portion of its wealth in dignifying commerce by noble and stately architecture. (Applause.) The Rev. T. B. BANNER pointed out the superiority of the present system of art-teaching to that which was in favour in the last generation. The Rev JOSEPH JONES moved "That the best thanks of this meeting be accorded to the chairman for his kindness in taking the chair on this occasion, and the ability and courtesy with which he has performed the duties attached to the office." The rev gentleman dwelt on the privilege which the meeting enjoyed in having for its chairman one of the greatest patrons of art, who, by his purse and his eloquence, had done perhaps more for art than any living man. (Applause.) The motion having been seconded, was carried by accla mation ; and The Chairman having briefly responded, the proceedings terminated. Railway and other Companies, DEESIDE. The half yearly meeting of this company was held at Aberdeen on Friday —Mr J. Duncan, the chairman, pre sided. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the revenue on the Deeside line had in the coarse of 11 years been nearly doubled. The revenue in 1854 was £8,833, and in 1864 £16,558. The cost of construction had been very moderate. The rate at which the company law rowed money was also satisfactory. A considerable sum had been expended during the past year in repairs along the line, in improving the station accommodation, and in add ing to the rolling stock of the company, which was now in a very efficient condition,. During the past year the traffic on the line had shown an increase of about £1,350 as com pared with the preceding year, but in the item of timber there had been a falling off, owing to the fact that the tim ber on the line had been exhausted. The remedy for this was to have a line running to Braemar, where there was plenty of timber; but he did not propose that the company should make the line or subscribe largely to such an exten sion, as it was a matter that concerned the landownersalong the route more than their company. The passenger traffic had been large, which he attributed to the low fares charged on the line. The working agreement existing between the Deeside and the Great North of Scotland companies had been kept in abeyance in consequence of negotiations now going on which might result in important changes in the relations of the various companies having their termini in Aberdeen. The report was then unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. was declared for the past year on the ordinary capital of the Deeside line, and at the rate of 2 per cent. on that of the Extension line. Sir 3. Elphinstone and Sir A. Anderson were elected auditors of the company in place of Mr W. Henderson and Dr Robertson. Mr Ruston and Mr Gordon, the other retiring directors, were re-elected, and the proceedings con cluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman for his admi rable management of the company's affairs.. BOWDIONT AND KALE. A public meeting was held at Yethoim on Saturday to consider the propriety of constructing a railway frog; Ormiston, on the Jedburgh Railway, to Milfield, on the Northumberland Central Railway. Mr Elliott presided. _ _ Mr (intsoN, the engineer, described the course of the line. It would start from Ormiston, cross the Teviot, pass by Mayfield to Morebattle, thence to the town of Yetholm, and down the vale of Bowmont to Langholm-bridge, and ter minate by a junction with the Northumberland Central Railway near Milfield. The length of the line:would be 18 miles, the steepest gradient was I in 50, and the estimated cost £99,000, or about £5,400 per mile. Resolutions were unanimously passed in favour of the line, and a committee was appointed to solicit the co-opera tion of the landowners, and to obtain subscriptions in the districts through which the proposed railway was intended to pass. CAPE TOWN. The report of the directors states that the line had been efficiently mad safely worked since the opening of the first section in Feb., 1862. The directors, however, regretted to state that, though there had been an increase of 11,140 pas sengers and 3,756 tons of goods in the half-year ending 30th June last, and in the gross receipts from £13,855 to £10,783, yet from the depressed condition of the western province, and the absence of the Government and Parliament in the eastern, there had not been that development of their traffic and consequent increase of revenue they had reason to ex pect. From increase of mileage run, and the heavy expem es incurred in replacing decayed sleepers, the working ex penses had increased from £13,406 to £18,116, leaving a loss of £1,790 on working the line. The item of maintenance of way an I works amounted to £6,500. Of this three-fourths were solely due to replacing decayed sloepars—a charge which, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, the Board were of opinion shonld be placed to capital, and in reference to which they were in communication with the local Government. But for those exceptional charges the line would have been worked to a profit, notwithstanding the position of the colony. After all payments in the past half-year were deducted there was a balance of £4,418 available for dividend for the three months ending the 30th of June. It would be proposed, therefore, in ac cordance with the resolution of the shareholders at the meeting of the 15th of April, to declare a dividend of 3i per cent on the capital stock of the company, payable forthwith, carrying over a balance of £231 to the next account. From the traffic returns it appeared that 260,905 passengers and 42,718 tons of goods had been carried over the line from its opening, in Feb. 1862, to the 30th of June, 1864. For the month of July last the receipts had been £2,077, arising from the carriage of 5,2L7 passengers and 1,608 tons of goods. The negotiations with the Wynberg Railway Company were broken off by their Board, who had since obtained an Act granting them running powers over the line of this com pany, from Salt River to Cape Town. Such an Act, the directors were advised, was a direct breach of the agreement with the colonial Government, by which " the exclnsive right of having and working a railway on this line was gua ranteed to this company." The memorial of the company to his Excellency Governor Wodehouse, praying him to with hold his assent to this measure if passed by the Legislature, and to remit it home for the consideration of her Majesty's Government, not having reached him before the local Par liament was prorogued and his assent given, the Board had brought the matter before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, vi ith the hope of inducing him to advise her Majesty to allow the act in question, Apart from the in jury likely to accrue to this company, and the imminent danger involved in working the traffic of two independent companies over one line, in the present temporary and limited accommodation at the Cape Town station, the direc tors felt that this attempt to infringe the Parliamentary guarantee, on the faith of which the capital of this company was raised almost entirely in England, ought to be most strenuously resisted. ....a •••••••=l. SOUTH AUSTRIAN AND LOMBARDO VENETIAN The traffic receipts on the South Austrian line from the Ist of January to the 13th inst, amounted on 1,082 miles to £1,616,718, and for the corresponding period last year to £1,566,777, showing an increase of £19,911. The receipts on the Lombardo -Venetian line, 274 miles in length, amounted to £301,318 against £286,277 on 257 miles for the same period last year, showing an increase of £15,051. OXFORD AND THAME. This railway was opened for traffic yesterday. It is a single line, on the broad gauge, starting from the Great Western two miles south of Oxford, and having intermediate stations at Littlemore and Wheatley. It is 15 miles in length, and affords direct access from Oxford to Wycombe, Aplesbury, and Maidenhead. ROYAL MAIL STEAMPACK ET, The report of the directors states that the reduction in the amount of subsidy under the company's new mail con tracts, which came into operation on the Ist of January last, would have prepared the shareholders for a decrease in the aggregate receipts in the working account as com. pared with that- for the corresponding half of the preceding year, and it would therefore be satisfactory to them to find that, in consequence of increased receipts from freight and passage money, the deficiency on the credit side of the working account was less than might have been ex pected. On the other hand, higher rates of freight for the conveyance of coal to the depots abroad, and the fact that the supplies of stores, &c,, wore restricted when the old contract was drawing to a close and the decision of the Government as to a new arrangement with the company was uncertain, accounted for the outlay under those heads in the half year ended the 30th June last being larger than it was for the corresponding six months of last year. The total disbursements in the working account were £7,398 in excess of the expenditure for the same period of the year 1863. Owing to the increase on the one side and the de crease on the other side of the working account, the surplus fell short of that for the corresponding six months of 1863 by £14,044. After debiting the general reserve fund with the loss of the sale of the Teviot, there remained &balance in favour of the company of £36,218. The state of the in surance account was very satisfactory, for after charging it with the bonus declared in April last, the balance at the credit of the account on the 3Jth June last was £240,181. It was right, however, to men' ion that since that date the directors had paid £6,581 in settlement of the case of the Spanish vessel Mercedes, run down by the Shannon. The state of the accounts enabled the directors to recommend that a dividend of £3 per share out of the ordinary profits, and a bonus of £2 per share from the insurance fund, be de clared, free of income tax, and that warrants for the same be issued on the 29th inst. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—No great invention entirely overthrow ing pre-existing practice was, we suppose, even in troduced without occasioning some countervailing disturbance and trouble, Possibly a more unmixed good was never provided for mankind than the in vention of the electric telegraph. It has outdone all that the wildest imagination could conceive of the wonderful and supernatural, and armed us with a übiquity of knowledge, the very best gift that the most sanguine enthusiast would have expected from the hand of science. It is rapidly creating for us one of the most useful of all practical branches of knowledge—the science of meteorology. It is draw ing our vast and scattered empire together into one compact whole, and it is giving to friends or cor respondents in remote positions many of the ad vantages which result from inhabiting the same metropolis. Yet even this great and marvellous agency, the most beneficial as well as the most won derful that the world has ever seen, carries with it some not inconsiderable drawbacks. The fault is not in the machine itself, but in our experience and inability to use it properly. It is a truism to say that in order to judge properly of any subject nothing is so valuable as the absence of prejudice— of the iassumption of arbitrary and preconceived opinions. It is one of the highest efforts of candour and fairness to keep the mind unbiassed until a story has been fairly told out froin beginning to end. The natural tendency of the mind is to con vert particulars into generals, or exceptions into rules, and when it has once done so to enlist all its obstinacy and all its self-love in the task of uphold ing a conclusion rashly assumed from imperfect data. The person who sends a telegraphic mes sage founded on long despatches must necessarily give a mere summary, and because it is a summary an imperfect appreciation of their contents. A great part of the public, we apprehend, take their ideas of remote events almost entirely from these sum maries, without giving themselves the trouble to verify them by subsequent investigations of the doctrines on ;which they are founded. It is thus that the electric telegraph may, and often does, be come the means of promulgating inaccurate infor mation. No one is to blame for this, but the pos sibility is one against which people ought to be on their guard. Thus we have recently laboured under the agreeable mistake that the war in New Zealand is at an:end, and now awake to the chilling con viction that out of the many tribes which have taken up arms against it is only one section that has laid down its arms. The Tauranga tribes, which have just submitted to us, are of all others the most likely to have taken such a step ; for, although they have taken up arms against us, they have always conducted the war in a chivalrous, humane, and even Christian spirit, which shows that the instruction we have communicated to them, however imperfect it may have been, has not been without valuable fruits in mitigating the horrors of savage warfare, even if it has not been able to prevent the occurrence of that warfare altogether. The tribes have been .very mercifully dealt with. They made an absolute submission, declaring that they placed their persons and their property entirely at the disposal of the Governor. In order probably to make the deeper impression upon them, Sir G. Grey took a night to consider his decision, and then announced to them that their submission was accepted; that they were, so far as their persons were concerned, fully par doned; that the prisoners of war of their tribe whom we had taken should be released ; that all those who had come in and given up their arms should be immediately settled on locations on their own lands, to be as far as practicable chosen by themselves ; that as they were without food, and had lost every thing by the war, seed potatoes should be given them, as well as implements and other things neces sary to enable them to settle on their locations; that the forfeiture of their lands should not extend to more than one-fourth; that the precise quantity within these limits should be afterwards settled. The Tauranga tribes expressed themselves most grateful, as well they might, for the clemency shown them, for certainly fairer terms were never granted to a vanquished enemy. It is besides agreeable to know that these terms were granted to the natives with the assent and in the presence of t wo members of the Parliamentary Government of New Zealand ; so that there is some reason to hope that a collision between the Imperial and Colonial authorities,whieh at one time seemed imminent, may now be entirely avoided. This news is excellent, as far as it goes, but no one can say that it amounts to anything like the close of the war, or a pacification of the Northern Waled. We must expect in the coming New Zealand summer, which is now just commencing, that mili tary operations will be carried on at Taranaki, and very possibly in other districts. Of the extent and probable duration of these operations men will judge according as their temper is sanguine or desponding. It would be a great mistake of course to regard the New Zealand tribe as a compact confederacy, ani mated by one spirit or actuated by one will. They may be more aptly compared to those Highland clans so formidable when they can be gathered together in a single field with a single purpose, but so liable to melt away like snow under the influence of jealousies and motives entirely incomprehensible to a stranger. But this very disunion and disorganisation, which has glade them less formidable ill war, will also re tard the conclusion of peace. Still there can be no doubt that the merciful treatment extended to the first tribes which have made their submission will have the very best effect upon native opinion throughout New Zealand. There is no excuse now for what may he called the argument of desperation —for the feeling that all is lost by surrender, and therefore nothing is endangered by continuing the war. The best argument is thus taken out of the mouths of the native agitators. But how speedily this consideration may work we cannot pretend to guess. It is only just to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to observe that this favourable turn in the e.ffairs of New Zealand is in a great measure to be attributed to the despatches which were sent from this country during the spring of the present year. It is a signal instance of the wisdom—nay, of the necessity—of interposing the due and para mount authority of the Imperial Government iu all cases where Imperial interests are directly con. cerned. Under the excuse of self-government the Australian Colonies claim to exclude from all com munication another colony which had fallen under their displeasure, and there was some reason to ap prehend that under a similar claim the Assembly of New Zealand might employ her Majesty's forces, supported out of Imperial funds, for the extermi nation of her Majesty's subjects, the aboriginal na tives of New Zealand. The attitude taken by the Colonial-office has, we are happy to believe, put are end to this danger. The New Zealanders will be far readier to consider the terms of pacification now that they feel they have to deal, not with the local Mi nistry representing an interest directly contrary to their own, but with the Imperial Parliament, which can have no other interest than to act impartially between the two races. They feel they are not going to be handed over to the mercy of irritated and victorious enemies, but that they stand before the tribunal of a Power which can and will do them justice. We doubt not that we owe to these con siderations the pacification of the Tauranga tribes, and we entertain the strongest hopes that this is only the commencement of a movement destined shortly to restore peace to New Zealand. The same policy has also, we believe, very favourably influ enced the deliberations of the responsible Ministry of New Zealand. The announcement that after the close of the present year the burden of the war ex penditure will fall in a great measure on the colony has, we have reason to believe, operated a most bene ficial change, if not in the opinions, at any rate in the projects of the Colonial Government. They are disposed to be moderate, because it has been made quite clear to them that the cost of a violent and aggressive policy will have to be borne by them selves. No amount of confiscated land, the only property of which it is possible to deprive the na. Lives, would compensate the colonists for a few months of that expenditure which has hitherto been borne by the home Government. It is their interest to conclude the war just as they conceived it to be before their interest to continue it, and we doubt not that they will govern themselves accordingly. - - POST.—The announcement that a motion for the annexation of Lauenburg to Prussia has been agreed to by the Landtag of that Duchy will probably abr.- prise those who have not forgotten that at the com mencement of the late war, when Schleswigers and Holsteiners were rejoicing in the prospect of a speedy severance from Denmark, the population of Lauen burg declared their willingness to link their fate with that of the Scandinavian monarchy. But in the present instance it would scarcely be fair to ascribe the change in the popular sentiment to mere fickleness. If .Lauenburg does in truth desire to be annexed to Prussia, the idea did not in all probia bility originate with herself. Straws indicate the current of the wind, and the motion to which the Upper Chamber of the little Lauenburg Parliament has given its assent may possibly denote the policy which, if it be possible, Prussia intends to pursue, not only in that Duchy but in those of Schleswig and Holstein. Lauenburg always stood on a dif. ferent footing in its relations with Denmark to either -of the other Duchies--.:for, although, like Holstein, forming - a - portion of the Germanic ConfearratiOn, it was not like it interested, in that much vexed question whose solution was finally to be effected by the dismemberment of Denmark. 'The loyalty evinced by Lauenburg to the Crown to which she has been so long attached furnishes, perhaps, the most conclusive answer to the charge so frequently advanced against the Danish Government of having drawn a distinction between German and Danish subjects to the prejudice of the former. The population of Lauenburg is almost exclusively German ) and tho attachment they have evinced to London: Printed and PrWished by WILLIAM ANDREWS. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sun 01lin. ro• / 12 ; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, n the count,' 01 Altattlesoz.7Tuuday, October 25, neff. Denmark may therefore be regarded as evi 4 dente of the Danish rule not being so in tolerable as it was represented to be in Schleswig and Holstein. Now, however, that the connection between Lauenburg and Denmark has been to all appearances finally secured, and as the claimants to the other Duchies do not pretend to any title to it, the question of its disposal necessarily presents itself for consideration. However desirous of remaining united with Denmark the Lance' burgers might be, the complete isolation of the Duchy would render such a union geographically impossible and politically useless. Two other eoln" tions alone remain, namely—the preservation of a separate and independent position, or annexation to another State. Between these two the Lauen burgers have now been called upon to decide, in conformity with the modern usage which, in ap pearance at least, gives. to a people the right of determining its future lot ; and if the declared opinion of the Landtag is to be received as eX' pressive of the national will, the decision will be pronounced in favour of annexation to Prussia. If the inhabitants of a territory of three hundred square miles are indifferent, as they may well be, to the possession of that quasi inde pendence which the several petty German State; eojuy, they could not do better, perhaps, than con sent to absorption into the most powerful kingdom in the Confederation. The annexation ofLauenburg to Prussia could, however, scarcely fail to awaken the jealousy of those minor States which have watched with alarm the aggressive and aggrandise ing policy which that Power has of late so steadily and apparently so successfully pursued. Not that the addition of a Duchy about as large as Hertford.. shire, and not a quarter so populous, to the Pruse sian monarchy would make the latter more terrible, but simply because it is not easy to say where a system of annexation may stop. The Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein are, as we have said, in a position dissimilar from that of Lauenburg, but if the Legislature in the latter declare in favour of being annexed to Prussia, it is neither impossible nor improbable that the assemblies of the former might by Prussian influence be brought to express the same wish. It is true that the Duke of Augustenburg, the Duke of Oldenburg, and one of the Princes of Hesse lay claim to the throne of the United Duchies, and it is equally true that the Diet at Frankfort alone possesses jurisdiction to adjudicate upon their diffei u t claims, but it must not be forgotten that a Prussian army occupies the Duchies and that the administration is in the hands of the Prussian Government. Every one knows with what extreme facility under such cir' cumstances numerously signed addresses might be prepared and forwarded to Berlin, expressing just whatever the Prussian Government was desirous of having expressed, and the equal ease with which the army of occupation would take care that the alleged wishes of the people were carried into effect. We are far from saying that this policy will be pursued, but the circumstance of one of the three Duchies taken from Denmark gravitating to Pruti. sia might reasonably excite the alarm of those who would unwillingly see the other two share the same fate. Whilst the war was still in progress we hazarded the conjecture that at its termination the aggressors would experience some little difficulty in disposing of the spoil. That conjecture has since been amply confirmed, and there is reason to be■ lieve that Prussia has met with several unexpected obstacles to the realisation of her original scheme. Notwithstanding her might, she cannot yet af f ord to bid defiance to the lesser States of the Confede ration. The Diet is desirous of handing over the Duchies to one of the pretenders ' • and, however averse from such an arr a ng emen t, Prussia would not, at least by an exhibition of violence, attempt to prevent its being carried into effect. The embarrassed state of the finances in both Duchies coupled with the fact that Pruse sia is a creditor in possession, will, however, afford to that State a means, of which she will not fiesitate to avail herself, of postponing indefie nitely that settlement to which the minor Power; look forward with so much anxiety. If Prussia makes the evacuation; of Schleswig and Holstein conditional, on being indemnified for the experts diture entailed by the war, she will retain posses sion long enough to leave the population no alter native but to perpetuate a rule of which it would be impossible for them to rid themselves. Count Von Bismarck, no doubt, thinks that it is a mere quo. , tion of time when Schleswig and Holstein will be' come nominally as well as virtually a portion of the kingdom of Prussia. We understand that his royal master has conferred on him the rank of Chancel lor of State, in consideration of the skill with which he has conducted his foreign policy, If success be a test of merit, it will be impossible to deny that the reward was well bestowed. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—OcT. 22. We had a moderate supply of wheat on offer at our market to-day, and previous quotations were firmly maintained. Fine barley saleable at late prices ; other sorts plentiful , and is to 2s lower. Beans and peas in short supply, and fully maintain their value. Wheat, white 40s 468 Beans,Mazagan..33B 3 65 red 36s 42s middle & 5ma11.358 40s Barley Oats . 20s 25s grey 36s 388 GLOUCESTER—Ocr. 22. There was a very full supply of wheat to-day at ou r market, which sold slowly at late prices. Foreign was in extremely limited demand, at former rates. Barley and beans very dull. Oats much pressed, and 6d cheaper. NORTHAMPTON-Om 22. White wheat, new, 39s to 44s ; new red, 36s to 408; old, 37s to 41s per qr. Barley, new malting, 32a to 348 other sorts, 28s to 30s. Old oats, 25s to 30s; new, 19s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 39s to 425. Peas, 37s to 420 per qr. IRD-OCT. 21. day the supply of wheat wail trade, and no advance was ns. Barley also in large Fur ,lities last week's prices could ides, with a slow sale, at about Yeas, Partridge, 36s 385 White 30s 34s Boiling 3 Ba 42S Dun 31s 3 55 Ditto new Beans, Tick, :1d 34s 31 5 new —s - - " 5 Harrow Ticks 3ss 3 85 new —s Mazagan 338 303 CHELMSFO: At this corn exchange to-c plentiful, but we had a dull made on last week's quotation ply, and except for finest qual not be maintained. Other 111.6 late rates. Wheat, old white...4os 45s new ..40s 41s old red 39s 40s new 37s 40s Barley 25s 32s Chevalier 26s 33s Grinding 208 28s Malt.... 6lB 67s Chevalier 64s 68s Oats 20s 26s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—Ocr. 22. We had moderate supplies of grain, and prices were much the same as last week tor wheat and barley, but no change in oats. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....36s l'd 24s 6d 1 17s 9d Second ..38s 6d 25s Gd 18s 6d Third....4os Od 27s Gd 20s Od COAL M.J. Prima of Coal per Ton at s. d. Holywell 18 6 Eden Main 2O 3 Wylam 18 6 LEA ET. the close of the market. Walla End. A. 0. Haswell . ...21 6 Pensher Prinarose.....2o 0 South Hetton ...21 6 Hartlepool ..21 0 Kelloe.. ... . 2O 6 Hetton t, 18 ; sold, 17, Walls End. Belmont - ---- .20 6 Braddyll's Hetton 21 0 Ships at marks [ADVERTISEMENT.]-11olloway's Ointment and Pil Instant Relief.—Sores which are daily extending, ulcers which are hourly deepening may be arrested in their tor turing progress, and induced to take a healthy action by applying this healing Ointment and taking these purify ing Pills. It soothes all distempers of, and extracts all morbid humours from the skin. 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WILLIAMS—GALE.—On the 21ilt inst., at St. Leonard's" on- Sea, Thomas DrinkwaterWilliams, Comxnand sr R.N., to Fanny Mary, only daughter of James Gale, Esq of Rosherville, Kent. Deaths. ALLEN.—On the 21st inst;;;;Treenwich llospital, Joseph Allen, Esq., aged 54. BURNELL.—On the 22d inst., at Windsor Villa, Plymouth/ John Burnell, Esq., aged 72. Buocx.-00 flu 19th inst., Edward Brock, of Cork-strecto Burlington -gardens, aged 64. DRAKE.—On the 224 inst., at Stoke Newington, Mr. Thos. Drake, aged 68. OLIPHANT.—On the 22d inst.. at Chewton, Alton, Rants, James Oliphant, Lg., late of 2, Bedford-place, Russell' square, aged 77. SHERBORNi—On the 21st inst., at Bradwell-grove, the Dowager Lady Sherborne, aged 84. SHEPARD.—On the 20th inst., at 32, Beauforterrae e t Maida-vale, Henry Thomas Proctor Shepard, aged 29. WALSIC—On the 22d inst., at Belle Vue Villa, 1-larrovi. road, William Walsh, Esq., aged 81,